Hunting
Trophy hunting causes an imbalance between the male and female sexes, since older males are primarily sought to be hunted for their size. The hunting of older males creates a gender imbalance within an area specific population. The killing of older male bears in their own territory allows other males to migrate in and claim the late bear's territory. Older male bears will have had cubs with existing female bears in the region. This may cause the newly migrated male bear to become potentially infanticidal towards cubs of the resident females and the late male bear.
Grizzly Bear hunting for the purpose of Wildlife management is permitted in British Columbia, Canada. Approximately 1602 Special Hunting License "tags" were drawn for via lottery & sold throughout all of B.C. in 2012, by the Ministry of Forests/Lands/Natural Resource Operations (a Provincial Government Department). And the Government website notes that killing female Grizzly Bears is detrimental to the re-population of the species, and encourages culling of males.
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Famous quotes containing the word hunting:
“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The man that once did sell the lion’s skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“He is the old hunting dog of the sea
who in the morning will rise from it
and be undrowned
and they will take his perfect green body
and paint it red.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)